Infant&#39;s undergarment.



UNITED STATES PATENT GEORGE F. EARNSHAW, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO EARNSHAW KNITTING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION 0F ILLINOIS.

INFANTS UNDERGARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented an. 26, 119%?.

Application filed January 7, 1914. Serial No. 810,719.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, Grenen F. EARN- SHAW, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Chicago, in the countyvof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Infants Undergarments, of which the following is a. specitication.

This invention relates in general to undergarments for infants and more particularly to the form of band adapted to be worn by an infant for the purpose of protecting and affording warmth to the infants abdomen. Infants bands of this generalcharacter heretofore used have been made entirely of the same material throughout their entirety; that is, they have been made of wool or a combination of silk and wool, of suiiicient weight to afford the desired warmth to the abdomen. inthe form'of covering of this kind is essential to the infantls abdomen, even duringr very warm weather, and it is therefore necessary that a band of this soi't be worn even in the summer time. The chest, shoulders and neck of an infant, however, do not require so much protection against drafts and cold andv a thickness of wool or silk and wool for the chest, neck and shoulders is not.

only unnecessary in warm weather, but is uncomfortable as it keeps these parts of the body unnecessarily warm.

The primary object of my present invention is the provision of a band of this general character which will afford the necessary i which is made of cotton, the entire garment It is well known that protection f vention, and Fig. 2 illustrates another form thereof.

On the drawings and referring more particularly to Fig. l reference character 5 iridicates the lower portion of the band which is adapted to surround the abdomen of an infant, and 6 indicates the upper part which surrounds the chest and is formed to provide shoulder straps 7, by which the garment is supported. The upper portion 6 and the shoulder straps 7 are knitted from a soft cotton yarn which atiords but little warmth and will be light, cool and cornfortable 'to the wearer in warm weather.

The lower part- 5 is knitted from wool or a ton which will be cool and comfortable over those parts of the body where it is unnecessary to maintain so much warmth.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 2 the lower part 8 is knitted of wool while the upper part 9 is knitted of cotton` the shoulder straps 10 in this instance being in tegral withthe back of the lgarment and adapted to be disposed over the shoulders and tied in place in front by tapes I1. The

particular manner of attaching the shoulder' straps is, however, relatively immaterial in the present invention. the generic idea resid ingr in the fact that the lower portion of the garment is made of material which affords the desired warmth to the w'earers abdomen while the upper portion is made of material which does not possess the warmth retaining Qualities of the lower portion and is there fore more comfortable during warm weather.

I claim:

As a new article .of manufacture. an abdominal band for infants, comprisingir a wide, integral, seamless cylindrical portion of warmth-retaining material such as wool adapted to surround the back and abdomen of the infant, and means for supporting said.

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constituting an even continuation of the GEORGE F. EARNSHAQV.y

band portion, said supporting portion hav- Witnesses: ing shoulder straps, and the abdominal and J. C. CARPENTER, Asupporting portions being interwoven' to M. A.K1DD1E. 

